Teams selected for the maximum eight-year agreement will have the opportunity to support the non-departmental government body in the appraisal, design and delivery of a range of flood risk and environmental asset upgrade projects. The Collaborative Delivery Framework 2 (CDF2) framework is organised into three technical lots and three geographic hubs covering strategy and appraisal,…
Main agenda items, approximate timing, public sessions and press opportunities. Source link
Defra says it will ‘halt criminals in their tracks’ and help to speed-up justice Source link
I slide a medical spatula into George the Connemara pony’s mouth, carefully finding the interdental gap in his teeth after his incisors. He begins licking and chewing, working out if it is edible. My job is to hold it in place for at least 30 seconds to get a good sample of his saliva on…
Cyprotex poster with an overview of LC-MS approaches for small-molecule biomarker analysis in drug discovery, highlighting analytical challenges such as endogenous interference and matrix effects. Source link
Celebrating success at the Staff Engagement & Upskilling Initiative of the Year award. The team proudly display their trophy on stage. At a glance:Who: The Environment AgencyWhat: The Nature Literacy ProgrammeWhere: UKWhy: To embed nature-positive thinking and nature recovery actions across all rolesWhen: 2025 The challenge Nature recovery and biodiversity loss require action at scale,…
The £1 million project has been announced to protect Minehead, Somerset from coastal flooding. Source link
On 22 January 2024, at the inauguration of the current Liberian president, Joseph Boakai, the US-based Liberian poet Patricia Jabbeh Wesley paid tribute to the west African nation’s tropical forests – one of the places where, she said, “our fathers came / centuries ago, and planted our umbilical cords / deep in the soil”. The…
The UK Government is considering granting the Environment Agency ‘police-style’ powers to tackle waste. As part of the plans, enforcement officers would be able to arrest suspected criminals, seize assets, and search premises without a warrant. Waste criminals caught transporting and dealing with waste illegally could also face up to five years in prison…
Defra moves to establish zero-tolerance policy on illegal waste, as government threatens to confiscate fly tippers’ driving licenses Source link
